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Intro
Cable television service technicians install, maintain and repair cable and satellite television and Internet signal and associated equipment in homes and commercial buildings. Cable television maintenance technicians maintain and repair cable television transmission and distribution systems and associated hardware. They are employed by cable and satellite television companies.
Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience.
Main Duties
Cable television service technicians perform some or all of the following duties:
- Communicate with subscribers and company personnel to determine work assignments
- Connect, disconnect and relocate cable outlets, install splitters, converters, decoders, satellite and pay TV equipment, and install other cable hardware and systems at subscriber’s premises
- Install cable modems and software to enable Internet access at subscriber’s premises
- Inspect, test and repair cable and satellite television signals and associated equipment at subscriber’s premises.
Cable television maintenance technicians perform some or all of the following duties:
- Maintain and repair main aerial and underground coaxial and fibre optic cable television transmission lines, trunking and related distribution and interconnecting systems including power supplies and amplifiers
- Inspect, monitor, test and adjust cable transmission and distribution systems
- Repair or replace faulty cables, power supplies, amplifiers and other associated transmission and distribution equipment
- Climb and work aloft on poles, ladders or other support structures
- Communicate with other workers to co-ordinate the preparation and completion of work assignments.
Employment Requirements
- Completion of secondary school is required.
- Completion of a college program in electronics
or
A combination of college, correspondence or industry courses related to electronics and electrical systems and on-the-job training
or
Completion of a four-year cable television technician apprenticeship program is required. - Trade certification for cable television technicians is available, but voluntary, in British Columbia and the Yukon.
All Titles
- apprentice CATV (community antenna television) technician
- apprentice community antenna television (CATV) technician
- cable servicer, television
- cable television installation technician
- cable television installer
- cable television maintenance technician
- cable television service installation technician
- cable television technician
- cable TV (television) converter and decoder equipment repairercable TV (television) converter and decoder equipment repairman, cable TV (television) converter and decoder equipment repairwoman, repairman, cable TV (television) converter and decoder equipment, repairwoman, cable TV (television) converter and decoder equipment
- cablevision servicer
- CATV (community antenna television) installation technician – telecommunications
- CATV (community antenna television) maintenance technician
- CATV (community antenna television) service installation technician – telecommunications
- CATV (community antenna television) technician – cable television
- CATV (community antenna television) technician – telecommunications
- CATV technician
- community antenna television (CATV) installation technician – telecommunications
- community antenna television (CATV) maintenance technician
- community antenna television (CATV) service installation technician – telecommunications
- community antenna television (CATV) technician – cable television
- community antenna television (CATV) technician – telecommunications
- DBS (direct broadcast satellite) technician – cable television
- direct broadcast satellite (DBS) technician – cable television
- electronics apprentice – community antenna television
- head end technician – cable television
- installation service technician – cable television
- installation technician, cable television
- maintenance technician, cable television
- repairer, cable TV (television) converter and decoder equipment
- satellite television technician
- technician, cable television
- television receive only (TVRO) technician
- TVRO (television receive only) technician
Exclusions
- Supervisors of cable television service and maintenance technicians (See 7202 Contractors and supervisors, electrical trades and telecommunications occupations)
- Workers who install aerial or underground cable television lines (See 7245 Telecommunications line and cable workers)